# Welcome etcd to CNCF

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Welcome etcd to CNCF

Etcd is a distributed data store that is used for example by Kubernetes to store the state of a running cluster. The data stores key-value pairs across multiple machines so that failures of a single machine is handled. Etcd has been written for distributed systems like Kubernetes as a fault-tolerant and reliable data base. Clients […]  
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